Apples, Apples Everywhere!

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The kit featured here is one of our favorite new kits for Fall. It has everything you need to teach concepts related to apples and then design a bulletin board around your student's work. Our Apples, Apples Everywhere kit contains 160 pages of apple resources for the classroom. Designed with Elementary students in mind the kit focuses on grammar skills, creative writing, and basic science concepts. The crisp black, red ,green and white used on the pennants and the apple themed word wall are a colorful addition that will brighten up any bulletin board and bring your student's work to life.
Our kit is simple to use, just print, cut and decorate.
With just a few simple steps you are ready to get your students excited about apples!

The word wall contains a word wall header sign and several 3x5 apple cards with apple related vocabulary terms on them. A blank design is also included so you can add your own terminology that fits your students needs. You can label the parts of an apple or use describing words to label your apples with adjectives.

Our grammar pages focus on adjectives and nouns helping students to  strengthen their sentences by adding some super new describing words.

 

An easy science/writing activity for your students. Have them examine the inside of an apple and then labels its parts. This activity is simple enough for primary students to be able to complete independently and is also a very valuable tool for our upper elementary friends helping them to learn basic science strategies that will help them learn how to document experiments and labs through labeling.

 

You can purchase our kit by clicking on the picture above. Let us know what you think in the comments below. 

We will pick one winner on October 15th to win a free kit!

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Apple Dunking

What says the beginning of the school year and fall more than APPLES!  We eat them, we love them, but do we know the science behind them?  We did a little experimenting in science this week to find out more about these delicious little fruits.  

Look how adorable this pennant banner turned out in my classroom from our Apples, Apples Everywhere kit in our Simply Sprout store.  My favorite part about it is that the letters come in white and green.  My little helper bee of a student put it together with one white letter and I couldn't bear to change it!  She is a special apple in the bunch!

Since my students are learning all about the scientific method before starting their science fair projects, we did a quick experiment.  This is a super simple one to do at home too!  Before starting your experiment make sure to have children make observations, predictions, pose questions, and create a hypothesis.

All you need is:

Apples

Lemons

Shallow bowls

Water

Knife (with adult help)

Directions: Peel and slice the apple, and cover one slice of apple with water in one bowl.  In a second bowl, squeeze half of a lemon on another apple slice.  In the third bowl, leave a slice of apple exposed to air.  Let the apple slices sit for one hour.

During that hour we made several observations and journaled about what we saw.  Remind students that it's important to jot down the time of each of those observations.

While we waited for our apples to do their thing, we dissected apples as well.  This was a great activity to teach the importance of diagramming and labeling.   We worked with our younger science buddies on this project, so it was important to choose an object that was appropriate for both age groups to dissect and diagram.

The cute diagram sheets came straight out of Simply Sprout's Apple kit as well.  We talked about all the parts of the apple, including what makes up the core.  

After an hour, several observations, and reviewing our data, we were ready to draw some conclusions.  We concluded that the lemon juice helped preserve the apple slice the best.  We had several trials set up around the room to insure that our findings were correct.  My smarty pants students concluded that the acid from the lemon helped in the preservation process.  Of course they were correct!  They clearly saw that the slice left exposed to the air browned the quickest, the one in water was protected some what from oxygen, but that the lemon juice worked the best.  We talked about the chemicals within the apple combining with oxygen to form a brown blanket of sorts over the apple to protect it.  However, the vitamin C in the lemon juice binds with oxygen creating a barrier and limited the browning on the apple flesh.

What a great science experiment and activity to usher in fall!  

We hope that you do some fall science soon too! 

Here is a freebie just for you!

 

**I apologize for camera phone pics.  This busy teacher was snapping away and teaching!

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